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Janina Wildfeuer
@neous.bsky.social
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@neous since 2003. #Multimodality researcher at Uni Groningen. Chief Editor of Visual Communication. Mum of three.

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Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · 2d
Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

#multimodality #digitalhumanities
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities specializing in audiovisual data
jobs.helsinki.fi

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 2d
Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Registration for DEC-MODE#1: Deciphering Multimodal Hate
In a short series of lightning talks, the newly built research group DEC-MODE aims at giving initial insights into their newly started work on multimodal hate speech. Please register here if you want...
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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 2d
Hate comes in many forms and especially the role that (audio)visuals play in our social media communication has not been addressed systematically.

This is what we will do in a new collab between NL & D. First impressions:

12 February 2026
11.00-15.30, including lunch!
Norman Building
Program Workshop Deciphering Multimodal Hate

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RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · 7d
Nicht vergessen: Heute ist wieder #ArtificialFriday! 🗓️

🎓 Online-Kolloquium | Teilnahme kostenfrei
⏰ 14 Uhr

Mit
🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) zu metaphorischen Konzeptualisierungen von KI
🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI

➡️ Jetzt noch anmelden: artificial-friday.de
Artificial Friday – Linguistischen Perspektiven auf Künstliche Intelligenz
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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 9d
Am Freitag darf ich beim Artificial Friday vortragen - ich freu mich sehr darauf!
rhetai.bsky.social RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · 9d
Dieser Freitag, 16.01. ist kein normaler Freitag – es ist wieder #ArtificialFriday!

Diesmal mit:
🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) über Metaphorische Konzeptualisierungen von KI und
🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI
➡️ Infos & Anmeldung: artificial-friday.de

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RHET AI Center @rhetai.bsky.social · 9d
Dieser Freitag, 16.01. ist kein normaler Freitag – es ist wieder #ArtificialFriday!

Diesmal mit:
🖇️ Constanze Spieß (Marburg) über Metaphorische Konzeptualisierungen von KI und
🖇️ Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social (Groningen) zu multimodaler KI
➡️ Infos & Anmeldung: artificial-friday.de

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Dec 20
Finishing things in 2025:

This big, big project is now out!

Reposted by Janina Wildfeuer, Svenja Hagenhoff

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De Gruyter Brill Language, Literature & Culture @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social · Dec 15
📣 Proud to present the first ever major reference work on comics studies in German! #comic #comicsforschung @stephanpackard.bsky.social @julianeblank.bsky.social @neous.bsky.social
Find it here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Book cover showing illustration of overlapping pieces of paper that evoke drawing comics panels

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Dec 11
Almost feels like a big family gathering:

MARGE #3: Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test

Today and tomorrow in Salzburg, organized by Hartmut Stöckl.
Leaflet Cover for MARGE #3: Multimodal Argumentation in Everyday Conversation & the Media: Putting Methods to the Test in Salzburg, December 2025

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · Dec 4
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. Our final talk for 2025 is on 10th December and is by Dr Yu Zhu from Qilu Normal University (see abstract below).

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · Dec 3
#CfP! Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication, guest edited by Juhri Salamet. Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026. More information: www.designresearchsociety.org/events/cfp-s...
CfP: Special Visual Essays Issue on More-than-Human Perspectives in Visual Communication
Extended abstracts due 20 January 2026.
www.designresearchsociety.org

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Nov 2
Yes, making the best of autumn today!
Mum and 3 kids walking through an autumn forest.

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Nov 2
What a beautiful photo of the church and the city!

See you soon again, Henrika!

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Oct 31
Helsinki it is!

Thank you for joining us in Groningen and see you there!

#12ICOM #13ICOM
thiip.bsky.social Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · Oct 31
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!

Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!

Look out for a call for papers next summer!

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Tuomo Hiippala @thiip.bsky.social · Oct 31
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!

Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!

Look out for a call for papers next summer!

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Oct 31
🥰 Thank you!

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Oct 31
🙏🏻

Safe travels and see you soon!

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Oct 31
What a vibe!
#12ICOM in Groningen is multimodalicious

Thanks to @thiip.bsky.social, Louise Ravelli, Bart Verheij and @asliozyurek.bsky.social for their brilliant keynotes!
12ICOM Name Badge 12ICOM sweet bag to keep everyone happy. Multimodalicious! Keynote speech audience, chaired by Dimitris Serafis Asli Özyürek‘s keynote in the Mennonite Church

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · Oct 14
The ‘Discourse, Power and Society’ Research Group, co-organised by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, warmly invites you to join our Seminar Series. We start on 22nd October with Dan Thorpe from CCCU (see abstract contact details to join below)

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T.J. Thomson @tjthomson.bsky.social · Oct 4
🔗 The open-access study can be read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🙏 Thanks to @nataliialaba.com for inspiring this study and to she and @neous.bsky.social for organising a panel on visual style that we presented at #ADDA5 and that helped sharpen my arguments in this paper.
Computer-mediated representations: a qualitative examination of algorithmic vision and visual style - TJ Thomson, 2025
To the general public, text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, seem to work through magic and, indeed, their inner workings are often frustrati...
journals.sagepub.com

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Oct 3
#12ICOM highlight: Our keynote live stream!

We are happy to bring some conference vibes to you at home:
bit.ly/12ICOMLive

Join us online to be part of the experience - and share this opportunity with others!
12ICOM Groningen
12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Oct 1
❗ The full #12ICOM conference program is now available online!

Registration is still open until 15 October - or until all places are filled.

sites.google.com/rug.nl/12ico...
12ICOM Groningen - SCHEDULE
Conference SCHEDULE | 12icom 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
sites.google.com

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Sep 29
Since this year, I am a scholar of the Jantina Tammes School @rug.nl - and here is a post on my work for/with the school and our multimodality group!

What an honor to be so prominently featured! 🥰

www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm...
Hoe AI betekenis geeft: ‘We weten niet precies hoe de interpretatie tot stand komt’
Digitale communicatie draait niet alleen om tekst. Ook niet-verbale expressies spelen een grote rol. Janina Wildfeuer, universitair hoofddocent aan de...
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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Sep 19
Ich durfte gestern auf der #GAL2025 sprechen - was für eine Ehre!
woerfel.bsky.social Till Woerfel @woerfel.bsky.social · Sep 19
Wo bleibt die Sprache (in der Multimodalitätsforschung) fragte gestern @neous.bsky.social in ihrer tollen Keynote auf der #GAL2025

Die Sprache bleibt, wenn…
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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Sep 19
Aww, danke!

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Till Woerfel @woerfel.bsky.social · Sep 19
Wo bleibt die Sprache (in der Multimodalitätsforschung) fragte gestern @neous.bsky.social in ihrer tollen Keynote auf der #GAL2025

Die Sprache bleibt, wenn…
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GAL e.V. @gal-ev.bsky.social · Sep 18
Und nun die dritte Keynote von Professorin Janina Wildfeuer!
#GAL2025
Titelfolie des Plenarvortrags vom Professorin Janina Wildfeier: „Und wo bleibt die Sprache? Neue Perspektiven für multimodale Linguistik (digitaler Kurzformate)“ Foto vom Prof. Dr. Janina Wildfeuer

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Sep 1
Preparations are in full swing and we look forward to welcoming everyone in Groningen soon for #12ICOM:
12th International Conference on Multimodality
29-31 October 2025, House of Connections, Groningen
bit.ly/12ICOM
Watch our website for the full program to be online soon!
12ICOM conference poster

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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · Aug 12
VisCom‘s 2025 special issue papers are out!

A brilliant issue on multimodal reception studies - many of them with open access!

@viscomjournal.bsky.social
jacopocastaldi.bsky.social Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · Aug 11
I’m thrilled to announce that the Special Issue on ‘Multimodality and Reception Studies’ I guest-edited for the @viscomjournal.bsky.social is now out (and most of the papers are open access)!

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Jacopo Castaldi @jacopocastaldi.bsky.social · Aug 11
I’m thrilled to announce that the Special Issue on ‘Multimodality and Reception Studies’ I guest-edited for the @viscomjournal.bsky.social is now out (and most of the papers are open access)!

journals.sagepub.com/toc/VCJ/0/0?...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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